An archbishop who is placed over a certain section of a country, comprising a certain number of suffragan dioceses. Every metropolitan is an archbishop, but not every archbishop is a metropolitan. The metropolitan has all the rights of a bishop in his diocese, and has the authority to

call a provincial council, and preside over it

preach in any church in his district

grant an indulgence of 100 days

exercise the right of devolution

He also enjoys the following honorary rights

precedence over bishops

to have the archiepiscopal cross carried before him throughout his province

use of the pallium in his province

When the term is used for a diocese, it means that its metropolitan is the head of its province.